Rewriters Quotes & Sayings

The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above? — Henry David Thoreau

Anyone who ever had a heart,
He wouldn't turn around and break it.
Anyone who ever played a part,
he wouldn't turn around and fake it.

Sweet Jane — Lou Reed

Have an intrinsic sense of direction of life. Have a goal-oriented conviction and trust. — Debasish Mridha

I'd say that if she touched his cock I'd kill her, but then, I'd kill her anyway. — Nicole Castle

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters. — James A. Michener

Grove's Law: All large organizations with a common business purpose end up in a hybrid organizational form. — Andrew S. Grove

Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and briefcases full of papers, will seem absolutely backward. — Burt Rutan

The longing at the heart of attraction is for union with the Beautiful. — John O'Donohue

Good work ain't cheap and cheap work ain't good. You get what you pay for. — Danny Kavadlo

I keep telling myself that, and most of the time I believe it. — Ally Condie

The reality is that the NBA was in worse shape in the '70s and early '80s. People have convenient memories. — Mike Thibault

They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality. — Patrick White

Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made of things and circumstances of the world he [or she] live in. — Edward Kasner

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past. — Edward Gibbon

This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time ... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart. — Bede Griffiths